Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Way Home
Sitting in the room with a bright window, Zhou Zhongmou put a thick stack of parchment paper in his hand on the table - purely out of the love of the earthlings for information, otherwise ordinary mercenaries in this world would not spend this money to buy the information collected in the union.
"It's a sketch, but it's something that the union has paid enough attention to. Zhou Zhongmou naturally knew that in this situation where he didn't pay much attention to intelligence, the union was able to collect this information, which was already very important - after all, they also had to determine where it would be easier to receive the task of hiring and fighting, and provide it to those mercenary groups for a profit.
The mercenary guild naturally focuses on gathering intelligence, and naturally focuses on collecting information on the campaign. Among them, of course, was a battle of the Ballan Kingdom against the Imperial forces of Transylvania - in any case, since it was entered in the name of support, it was always necessary to pretend. Now the people of this world are still simple and robust, and the behavior of many politicians on the earth may never be able to play for the time being.
Although the record is very brief, Zhou Zhongmou can still more or less imagine the battle scenes at that time based on the movies he has watched, the history of earth warfare, and so on. Thousands of centaurs were clad in scale armor - the Balan Kingdom was currently able to draw about 3,000 centaur cavalry, and the centaur cavalry was similar to the Polish hussars that Zhou Zhongmou had seen on Earth, wearing light metal bust armor, holding asymmetrical shields and long thin lances. The nimble centaur cavalry lined up in a neat formation to form a perfect wave assault. The records state that the losses of the Ballan centaur cavalry were slight, and the mercenaries who were in charge of cleaning the battlefield later reported that they had recovered the corpses of about a hundred Ballan centaur cavalrymen. Tong Guò observed that there were about two hundred or so wounded. But the fallen corpses of their opponents covered the entire battlefield. It turned the black earth into a gray-white - there were so many bones. So much so that the broken bones covered the whole earth like snow.
Not only skeleton soldiers, but also more powerful skeleton cavalry, ghouls, and even abominable corpses were covered in the ground, also according to the reports of the mercenaries who cleaned the battlefield - roughly the Transylvanian Empire paid as many as about 6,000 skeleton soldiers, 4,000 skeleton cavalry, more than 2,000 ghouls, and more than 500 abominations. Here, Zhou Zhongmou saw that the mercenaries on the report were estimates, because the shattered skeletons could never be recovered, and how many skeleton soldiers had fallen.
Underneath the report, the mercenaries also reported in suspicious language that two or three Death Knight Lords or Lich Lords might have died in the battle, "That is, these centaurs completely and completely annihilated their opponents with one-fifth of the opponent's troops, is it possible to fight like this?"
Of course, the following record is also expected by Zhou Zhongmou, and the battle that took place on the Kremov Plain is called the crushing of Kremov. While it frightened the invading armies of the Transylvanian Empire, it also greatly shocked the northern nobles of the Southern Yuktobanian Kingdom. The Kingdom of Ballan took the opportunity to create influence among the nobles of the north, and clearly put its hand into the battle for the succession to the throne of the Southern Yuktobanian Kingdom.
"Sure enough, after a battle, he stayed behind the northern front and didn't move, it seems that the usefulness of deterring the aristocratic coalition is much more important than what the so-called 'support'" Zhou Zhongmou, who has read a lot of earth history documents, naturally knows the Tao here, and this kind of thing on the earth is no longer strange.
Closing these reports together, Zhou Zhongmou felt as if he had watched a movie, which was very interesting. Naturally, he could put himself in a higher position and see these things as a drama, a movie. But now it seems that the drama is about to extend to Karelia, where it will also become a stage.
"It's better to rush over, it's better that those things don't happen" In the information in Zhou Zhongmou's hand, it was pointed out that the local garrison of the Grand Master of the Black Bull Heavy Knights, Dragonov, was obviously the Grand Prince's party. His homeland was in the north with his family and relatives, while the Moby Dick Knights were in dire straits with Count Potemkin, the commander of the naval fleet. It seems that no one is inclined, but Count Petrovodsk is a very obvious southern nobleman, on the side of the little prince and princess.
Zhou Zhongmou knew that it was impossible for him to change these situations, after all, he was just a small mercenary, but he wanted to at least keep the benefactors and friends he valued from leaving the whirlpool temporarily, and it was best to stay in a remote place until the dust settled.
"It shouldn't be so exaggerated, after all, it's a matter between gold-level fighters. Thinking like this, Zhou Zhongmou began to rush back, and this time he had enough money to buy a horse and ride all the way along the road. Within the Belken Empire, the main roads along the coast are quiet due to the regular patrols of soldiers who are responsible for clearing out monsters, demonic beasts, and robbers, so they move quickly.
Zhou Zhongmou went straight along the road, with mountains on one side and the sea on the other. There are also many tourists here, not only businessmen and tourists who come to the seaside city for sightseeing, but also tourists who come to the seaside road for sightseeing - the road here is on the mountainside by the sea, with gentle slopes and cliffs on one side of the road, and the ocean below. Due to the different terrain, sometimes the seaside is a sandy beach, sometimes it is a magnificent seaside cliff, and the scenery in some places reminds Zhou Zhongmou of the "old man's stones" on the earth, those huge rocks erected on the coast
The shallow sea here only extends out about a few hundred meters on the coast, and the color of the sea water is completely different from a few hundred meters away from the road, Zhou Zhongmou knows that it is because it is cut down from a few meters and more than ten meters in the shallow sea to dozens of meters, and then cut down again a few kilometers away into a deep sea of hundreds of meters or even thousands of meters - and this is also the biggest purpose of those tourists here - the sea kings will haunt the deep sea.
Of course, Zhou Zhongmou also saw these creatures that made humans afraid to enter the deep sea, and the incredibly large creatures occasionally showed their bodies in the deep sea, and because of the protection of the shallow sea, these magnificent creatures could not have any impact on the sightseers on the road - this is one of the reasons why Zhou Zhongmou took more than three months to reach his destination, and why he still chose this way back.
The most common thing here is the sea king of octopuses, and Zhou Zhongmou has seen a huge octopus with a body length of more than 100 meters several times along the way - it is estimated that this area is its hunting ground. I don't know what this big octopus is capable of, anyway, the huge body is already the biggest ability. It's not just the octopus, when the coast road turns into the Black Forest, there will be a huge shark hunting ground - this is what Zhou Zhongmou has seen when he arrived. (To be continued......)